HoP 302 - On the Eastern Front - Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian
June 3rd, 2018
Eastern Christian philosophy outside of Constantinople, focusing on translation and exegesis in the languages of Syriac and Armenian.
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HoP 289 - A Wing and a Prayer - Angels in Medieval Philosophy
November 19th, 2017
Be surprised by how many philosophical problems arise in connection with angels (how many can dance on the head of a pin is not one of them).
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HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan
July 30th, 2017
Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.
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HoP 282 - Portrait of the Artist - John Buridan
July 16th, 2017
The hipster’s choice for favorite scholastic, John Buridan, sets out a nominalist theory of knowledge and language, and explains the workings of free will.
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HoP 277 - Trivial Pursuits - Fourteenth Century Logic
May 7th, 2017
The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”
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HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language
March 12th, 2017
How the language of thought relates to spoken and written language, according to William of Ockham.
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